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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
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If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.
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I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
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No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
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